Next Time, Take Bill Kurtis With You
Dave on September 5th, 2008
The Internet can’t hide anymore. And neither can the Terry family of Portland, Oregon. 
Their son was traveling in Vancouver in July and used his AirCard to access the Internet around 21 times. Turns out Vancouver is technically in some foreign country called “Ca-na-da,” which means all those charges were international charges. When the bill came, it was 200 pages long and weighed in at a back breaking $19,370.
The family is trying to get AT&T to give them a break because they didn’t warn them when the bill topped $1,000, since no family can reasonably be expected to know and understand its own phone plan or monitor its own spending. Barring a favorable resolution with the phone conglomerate, the Terrys will likely become fugitives, living off the land, roaming the earth like Kain from Kung Fu, but in a station wagon. Unless they have to sell it to pay that phone bill.
November 12th, 2008 at 9:54 pm
Yes. We at **** spend our days fending off people who believe that Canada is a state, or that Cuba is part of the Caribean, and that their phones should work with no roaming charges there. Welcome to the idiocracy.